Woman indicted in theft of $32K from Florham Park bank

An Irvington woman was indicted today on charges of stealing about $32,000 from the Bank of America branch in Florham Park where she was employed.

Mauricia Gibson, 25, was indicted on third-degree charges of theft and failure to make required disposition of property, according to the indictment handed up by a grand jury in Superior Court in Morristown.

The thefts are alleged to have occurred between April 1 and July 31.

Court documents state that in August, the bank discovered a shortage of nearly $12,000 in an ATM account, and a shortage of $20,000 from Gibson's cash box. She allegedly made false deposits to cover the missing funds.

Gibson allegedly used to stolen money to pay her own personal bills and to send her father, who was suffering from cancer, to Trinidad, court documents state.